Home cook for many years! I like trying new spices and experimenting with seasonings. I'm on a hot and spicy kick, with urfa biber and piment d'espelette as my current obsessions. Lots of Christmas cookies, fruit cakes. Lamb cake at Easter. The usual. Successfully baking a huge Italian Easter bread from my best friend's family recipe. A dozen eggs, a pound of pecorino romano. Big, round beautiful loaf! For a dinner party years ago, I made lemon chicken, a recipe I'd successfully made many times. But I didn't realize that the chicken I bought was a tough old stewing hen. We were able to bounce the chicken pieces off the table. Not so great. Now I know about chickens.